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Army's Huge SAP Project 'At High Risk'
itwbennett writes "The Army's $2.4 billion SAP project is delayed, over budget, and, once implemented may not even meet its original objectives, according to a recent auditors' report. For its part, the Army is less concerned with the auditors' findings about the project that will manage a $140 billion annual budget and serve nearly 80,000 users once it is complete: 'The Army believes the risks identified in this report are manageable and do not materially impact the [project's] cost and schedule,' said an official with the Assistant Secretary of the Army (Acquisition, Logistics, and Technology)."
When you go with SAP.
The only people who will get something out of SAP are the consultants who get paid to "fix" it.
"Forget the engineers." -Carly Fiorina, briber of MIT Technology Review.
Why that isn't cancelled, but Webbs telescope is? Ah, its thats the Army....
RIP US space program
c) They still believe in Waterfall development methodology. They also believe in "fixed-price" contracts. It's the change requests that kill you. The consultants gladly build what you asked for. Then when you realize that you really didn't know what you wanted, they have you.
It fails just as often in the private sector, the difference being that there, the client usually goes bankrupt before you hear about it.
Yes it does. You just don't get to hear about it either because it's confidential or because private sector waste isn't a good story.
I have worked on many projects in the private sector and heard about plenty more where the IT director has believed what a salesman told them and ended up with an absolute disaster. What you say might be true for SMBs but big organisations are not too different to the public sector.